Posts Tagged ‘the black keys’

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack White and The Black Keys are amongst the big name acts confirmed for this year’s Austin City Limits festival.

The Black Keys were joined onstage by John Fogerty at Coachella over the weekend to pay tribute to Levon Helm.

The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach has said the blues duo had no aspirations to be rock stars during their decade-long rise to fame.

The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney has revealed the duo are ready to return to the studio in the summer to begin work on the follow up to their sublime 2011 album ‘El Camino‘.

Spotify’s Sean Parker has become the latest subject for the ire of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, who has branded the Napster founder as an ‘asshole’ who has made billions of dollars from ‘figuring out ways to steal royalties from artists’.

The Black Keys have apologised to Nickelback for infamously singling them out as one of the reasons why ‘rock n roll is dying’, though the apology might not be as sincere as Chad Kroeger and co. had been hoping for.

The Black Keys have recorded a track with the hotly-tipped British singer Michael Kiwanuka, reports BBC Newsbeat.

The Black Keys‘ frontman Dan Auerbach has criticised the Grammy Awards for ignoring a large section of US music.

The Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach has said he ‘honestly doesn’t care’ if rock music is dead amid continuing reports of declining albums sales and mainstream struggles for today’s guitar-led bands.

The Black Keys have confirmed the next single taken from their recent album ‘El Camino‘ will be ‘Gold On The Ceiling‘.